The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-07-06

. ba CONGRATULATED, not ohiy 80
y ors display OF enthusiastic paVii0
49,, NTH which their annual celeoi g. 80
:, o,.;avernent of national indepenueno
'ne a1obro+ed but also upon the hpe'a1
TIT evinced by them to a man III 81, |
;p, free and open-handed "eloonl,o ~
e ond conditions of men Inc
-, 1,,aa as welcome to ION theili d
" CO. +be Catholic as the protestant
ID i''9l- 80 humble estate as his weaithler
'iio poce and creed were SUNK III
hels,i0 4,lo5 of man. And not only
+.;s Int the programme iioiN 90
40 eod was carried out III d i'l''' tel
oil IFS details. At SUNRISE
sI,,+o of thirteen guns-one LOT ea'
- C+o+e in the American Chlon -
nc" -, tho shore battery, ana do Wv
me- 40 it's way upwards in the nea
| sun aoene was disclosed. buii'iiis
| d ,,,bare The United States-'T1Ke
was eN0i " -asr-UIle port OF any I'M
of-war Ao0@aHhhitting this token of goodwill
( to the Great Republic. The city, too, was
! gay with flags. The Government and
every Diplomatic and Consular representa-
tive displayed their colors, and many a
private residence was bedecked with the
Stars and Stripes. Manager Bartlett, of
the Hawaiian Hotel, made an especially at
tractive display, the building being twice
encircled.
The hour announced for the opening
exercises was 10 o'clock, but long before
that hour people were seen vending their
way to Little Britain. on King street.
where the festivities of the day were to be
held. The committee had provided free
buses for all those who cared to avail
themselves OF them.
Shortly after the hour appointed His Ex-
ceIlency Geo. w Merrill, United States
Minister Resident, called attention to the
order of
LITERARY EXERCISES.
An opening prayer was delivered by Rev
E. G. Beckwith, d. d. The choir, accom-
panied by the audience, sang the patriotic
song, America, " after which
His Excellency Mr.. Merrill said that
some one had suggested that they had
skipped him, his name having been down
for some Introductory remarks He in
timated in humorous way that he would
give place to other speakers and be brief
himself. He had had advices by the last
mail OF the fact that the Star Spangled
Banner still waved over their native land.
and he hardly thought any interruption
had occurred since. He thought he was
justified in saying that America and all its
entertained friendly feel
ing to the good people of Hawaii (applause)
and evinced deep and abiding interest in
their welfare.
Mr.. Edmund G. Atkinson then read in a
clear, firm and penetrating voice the
Declaration of Independence
Song" The Star Spangled Bauner"
Senator George E. Whitney de ivered in |
eloquent tones the following
GRAFTON.
Two thousand miles from the shore !
which bounds our native land! Two thous-
and milesbfrom the America of our hearts!
How fondly and proudly turn our thoughts |
% that beloved fatherland; and with the
ast-swelling food of kindling emotions.
whose sources are the pure, deep fountains
whence our hottest and best impulses pro-
Iced. How completely checked and
drowned are all the bitterness and jealousy
If partiZanship, and the small chickering's
If personal ambitions To-day no Demo
cratic mist swells under the heat of party
imagery into the shape of a devouring
lend, whose breath even shall blight the in
iustries of the toiling masses. No Repub
lean rascal CLUES himself to the public
rib, and while favoring the capitalist and
nonopolist, mercilessly shifts their bur-
lens upon the struggling consumer. No
1ugwump claims all the virtues of one
arty and strives to beat out its brains
Nth the cudgels of the other These, with
he civil service reformer, the prohibition
st, the non-believer in sumptuary laws, all
re 1uSed into common mass of red-hot
atrlotlsm, as pyrotechnic and grand and as
'resistible as the lava flows of Mauna Loa.
To-day the symbol of our country
hich paints the sky on every hand, and ,,
oats as proudly on the trade winds of the
acific as on the land breezes of the Missis-
ppi, stands as the representative of the
over OF people not great with standing
mics nor naval squadrons, for in these
His Majesty OF this Island
lngdom is comparatively greater-but :
eat III those institutions and sentiments }
hlch bind into one the labor, the thought. =
e ceaseleSs activities and the large aims r
a united nation. The farmer, the miner. :,
e mechanic, the capitalist, the profess
)nal man, the citizen of whatever calling
no calling, and no less ne who dwells
r time in foreign lands than he who re- !
ANS within his native borders, all swell :
maJestysof sovereignty that abides in :
breasts OF a iberty-loving people. and :"
e influence of whose voice goes out into ="
lands. AT this distance from home tho ~
respective dininishes the Importance Of %
dlvldual thought and life, even Of the p'
eatest, as we observe not single wavos OF
len contemplating the vastness of the ht
can. fe
Viewed from this point of observation ha
lat elements of strength, towering, as If Oh
re, IN a series of headlands, or noun III
n peaks, out of the sea, shall we desip Wv
6e as the most commanding and repre- o
native of our country's greatness? Its -
Die expanse, from Atlantic to Pacific. ~
m Behring's Straits and the great lakes -
the Gulf, embracing earth's broadest ~
eys and three grand mountain chains, ~
,ainly in the description of these the s or
grapher may revel in vastness and eol